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Island man dies from burn injuries

Posted: April 14, 2011 - 8:38pm

ISLAND MAN DIES FROM BURN INJURIES

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jim Ferguson, 49, of Hilton Head Island, died on Thursday morning at the Joseph M. Steill Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., from injuries related to severe burns in an outdoor fire in his yard last year.

He was injured in a fire on Nov. 23, 2010, at his residence at 115 William Hilton Parkway (U.S. 278) on Hilton Head Island, according to Beaufort County Deputy Coroner David Ott.

Ferguson was burning something outdoors in a yard pit.

“He accidentally grabbed (a container of) gasoline, thinking he had kerosene, and threw it and it exploded on him and burned him over 90 percent of his body,” Ott said.

Ferguson was airlifted to the burn center following the incident in November and has remained there.

Ferguson suffered from “multiple organ failure as a result of injuries he sustained during the accident,” Ott said.

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